Which of the following is a permissible eminent domain action under the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution?
A) A pharmaceutical company takes over a residential neighborhood to expend its corporate headquarters.
B) A state agency pays a homeowner $200 as compensation for building a highway through his home.
C) The state's governor forecloses on a farmer's land to build a personal free-range chicken farm.
D) A private non-profit organization brings a foreclosure action against a decrepit tenement in order to build a public park.
E) The municipal government pays fair market value for the right to string power lines across a homeowner's property, then sells the right to the state's only electric company.

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Courts have certainly allowed the government to take private property right for use by electric and other private utility companies. These companies benefit the public greatly.

Which of the Following Is a Permissible Eminent Domain Action